by Ajaita Saini Mindy Kaling is an Emmy nominated actress, comedian, producer, and writer. She’s most famous for her work as Kelly Kapoor on The Office and Mindy Lahiri on The Mindy Project. However, she is also known for looking a lot different than most comedians and actors out there. In an appearance on Jimmey…
by Brenda Guesnet The FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in the world. The 32 best national male soccer teams compete, attracting an audience of more than 26 million people worldwide and costing billions of dollars every time it is staged. This time, the host country of the cup was Brazil, and advertisers…
by Alice Wilder I was in 8th grade. The most romantic thing that had ever happened to me was a sweaty slow dance at summer camp to Stairway to Heaven. And I wanted to be Bella Swan. I owned every Twilight novel and read them religiously. On the weekends my friends and I would congregate…
by Montgomery Jones There are so many wonderful things that can be said about Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o. She seemingly appeared on the Hollywood scene out of nowhere. Actresses spend years and money trying to reach the success that Lupita has garnered from her performance in 12 Years a Slave as Patsy. Lupita caught…
by Dee Putri A few days ago, I watched a documentary about wars (which was depressing) that showed an interview with an old lady who had experienced war. The story itself was traumatizing for me–I always get super depressed whenever I read or watch something about war. The second thing that I noticed about her…
by Kimberly Belmonte Have you heard that there’s no more photoshopping in American Eagle’s Aerie ads? I think it’s a step in the right direction and it reminds me of SPARK activist Julia Bluhm’s petition to Seventeen magazine that led the company to issue a new policy against photoshopping its images. While it’s totally awesome…
by Lilinaz Evans You may remember CoverGirl from our recent Capitol Cuties campaign, but today I wanted to talk about Covergirl’s newest ad campaign #GirlsCan. Here, in the campaign video there is a wealth of strong, high powered women–many of whom are self- proclaimed feminists, like Ellen DeGeneres or Janelle Monae, and all of whom…
by Angela Batuure I’ll admit I’m not a huge fan of Hollywood awards ceremonies like the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, People’s Choice Awards, or the Academy Awards. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve sat down to watch these shows (unless Beyoncé is performing, in which case the likelihood I…